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I first noticed this insanity (with a reference to pseudo-ostension, no less) on Snopes – that incredible site of legends. A guy asks a girl out on a dating site. She agrees. She offers to pay her part at the restaurant. He graciously declines. Normal so far, but the twilight zone starts when she doesn’t call him back for two weeks because she’s busy. So, he DEMANDS PAYMENT FOR HER DINNER and threatens a lawsuit for her breech, telling her to “be a mensh – do what’s right.” It is so bizarrely out there I can hardly believe it. The complete story along with the actual voicemail messages are over at PR. Differently: How Not to Act on J-Date. You must check it out. You might want to pass if you get asked out by Darren L. Sherman, CEO of Regulatory Advisory Services in New York, though. Really.

You see the sign. You stop reading. Yeah, yeah, you’ve heard it before – leaving valuables in the car and management is not responsible and all that. STOP. This sign is different. It does put an onus on you – but your risk is that of peacock attack on your vehicle!

In case you can’t make it out it says:

WARNING: Beware of possible PEACOCK ATTACKS to cars
PARK AT YOUR OWN RISK
During mating season, peacocks display overt courting behaviour and have been known to attack reflective surfaces such as cars with polished bodywork. these territorial birds mistakenly view their own reflection as that of a competing peacock. The island’s carparks cannot be protected from such free-ranging animals and drivers are advised that they park strictly at their own risk.

I think it’s a new sign but I may have just never bothered to read it. Amusing, nonetheless.

Yeah, so I did one of those Meez things which is at www.meez.com … but it didn’t seem to work in my Firefox beta and even (in Safari at least) it is so pathetically slow to be unusable if you don’t have lots of time. It doesn’t look like me but it’s as close as I could get …